29 cents for canned veggies!!!!

NickieL said:

Can't pass that up. I've NEVER seen canned veggies for 29 cents!!! and is a major brand too. Limit is 12 but I'm gonna go get 12...and then maybe send hubby through line too!

A store here is haveing a one year anniversery with some amazing deals :nanner: I've never shopped there before as I tend to stay away from the big stores but I can't pass up this.

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Sorry to bump a topic several months old, but I was doing a search to see if there were any recent threads about the bad Chinese drywall, and this is one of the ones that came up. :hrm:

But this is an interesting enough thread to bump.

I don't know how many decades it's gone on, but traditionally, canned vegetable manufacturer's have had good fall sales. I guess they're clearing out last season's stock to make room for the new?

Anyhoo, in the 1950's, they would go on sale for 5¢ a can, and my mother would get enough cases to last for the year (yes, she always had a garden, but the store bought stuff was good insurance).

In the 1960's and 1970's, 10¢ a can was a common sale price.

As recently as the 1990's, 20-25¢ was usual.

But in the last several years, regular prices are out of hand, and sales aren't as good as they used to be.

Last month I got several cases of Libby's Naturals by combining $1/3 coupons with a price of 67¢, to make them 34¢ w/coupon, but this was only for corn, green beans, and green peas.

Several months ago, it was Del Monte specialty canned veggies I got for something like 42¢ each by combining a sale with coupons. By specialty, I mean not the "standard three". I got stuff like greens, peas and carrots, mixed veggies, green beans with potatoes, etc. I got many cases of these.

The big problem is, it's hard to find sales on canned veggies at the same time that there are coupons out. Whereas it used to be easy to get cheap canned veggies (with or without coupons), it's gotten really hard. The prices just keep going up and up.

And of course it's not just veggies going up in the grocery store. Everything is going up. Most of you are noticing that.

And yet there will be no COLA for SS recipients for 2011. AGAIN. :grumble:

NickieL, when there's a super sale on something, but they have a limit, I do the "parking lot relay". 29¢ for Green Giant is an awfully good price nowadays. It's not surprising that they had a limit.

ladycat said:

I don't know how many decades it's gone on, but traditionally, canned vegetable manufacturer's have had good fall sales. I guess they're clearing out last season's stock to make room for the new?

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No, this is not the time for that. Around here, pea pack takes place in late-June through mid-July. Then green beans are ready followed shortly by corn. Both of those are about done by mid-August. Then it's beets followed closely by carrots through September. By this time, every cannery in the state is shut down with only warehouse and labeling staff still working. If there are specials now, it's because a big brand name is getting a price break if they take XxX number of cases which will keep cash flowing to pay bills.

Green Giant was mentioned. That's just a brand name although they did also have their own canneries and are now Seneca Foods. Many independent canneries are never heard of but their prime duty is to process a crop and get it into cans. When done, they have a warehouse full of canned products and a labeling crew ready to go to work. The cannery informs a brand name or chain store company that they have so many cases of a product. If those companies want a certain amount of them, and happy with the quality, they send that many labels. That's why you will see a store brand which will say: "Packed for...." instead of "Packed by...." May be 5 different brands on a store shelf and all from the same cannery.

Then there are real specialty canned items where there may be an excess. The farm across the road from WeGrowGarlic contracts with a nearby cannery to grow a very special type of sweet corn. It is a most lovely cream style corn which is canned on contract with the state for use in schools and prisons. The state contracted amount is canned in big tins. When that quota is met, anything extra is packed in normal consumer size. Farmer happy, state happy, cannery happy, and consumer happy!

Martin